SOUTH ' power
The society of Trinity. church will
holdasupper in Red Men’s Hall on
I ’ Wednesday evening October 27.
The Y. ,P. S.‘C. E. of the COngrega-
tional church will hold a business meet-
ing to-night.
' —'Prof. M. S. Rosen, the well-known
oculistv_optician, can be consulted at
his office in the parlor of the Mahacke- I
mo Hotel, South Norwalk, Tuesdays
. from 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Eyes examined
, f5 tf
free “ . _
A horse belonging to Jake Schaub
ran away on South Main street yester-
dayo afternoon, and was stopped in front
of the Mahackemo hotel by Frank
Palmer before any damage had been
done. '
Edward Harrigan presented “ The
Grip” to an rappreciative audience at
Hoyt’s Theatre last evening.
The Gen._Russell Frost residence is
rapidly approaching completion.
Contractor 'J. R. Raymond is pushing
the work on the addition to the Nor-
walk Iron Works as rapidly as the do-
ing of good work will permit. -
The pool tournament of the Twin
City Wheel club can safely be pooled
as a success.
The Gould Seymour residence on
West avenue is being connected with
the sewer.
William Armstrong the porter at the
Mahackemo has resigned.
F. B. Winnie of New Haven is visit-
ing friends in this city.
There will be a New England dinner
at the Norwalk Yacht club house at
Hickory Bluff to-morrow evening, at 7
o’clock. ,
Members of the Norwalk Yacht club,
and other society people, are to give a
subscription dance in Red Men’s hall,
Thanksgiving night.
The ocean barge Hope is at ‘ Ferris’
wharf. .
The big athletic entertainment takes
place at Arion hall to-morrow night:
Dr. Warnes the Washington street
dentist advised the police at an early
hour this morning that he had heard
some one walking on a roof adjoining
his office and thought that burglars
were trying to effect an entrance.
Captain Gladstone and Officer Hall
made an investigation but failed to ap-
prehend the intruder.
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LOCAL AND omen NEWS.
Rev. and Mrs. T. K. Noble will give
a rec'éption t9 the members of the Con-
gregational church to-morrow evening.
There will be a. football game between
the Pequonnock and Center . schoo
elevens Friday afternoon. '-
At the meeting in the Congregation-
al Chapel to-morrow evening there will
be reports from the meeting of the
American Board, held in New Haven
last week.
The funeral of the late Charles H.
Fitch will take place this afternoon,
from his former home on Newtown
avenue.
A gutter band made sweet music on
the streets this morning.
H. H. Williams the Main street nov-
elty dealer has put in a large consign-
ment of cider barrel faucets and nickel-
plated tea-kettles. '
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Curbs and gutters ought to be order-
ed laid in front of certain premises on
Stuart avenue.
A new oil-cloth is being laid on the
floor at the Selectmen’s office.
The sidewalk in front of the E. Gus-
owski place on Main street is being
placed to grade and will not be in as
dangerous a condition as heretofore.
The F‘dead ends” of the sewer system
are being slushed under the supervision
of street commissioner Martin Kellogg.
Getting too Near Home.
A Yorkshire Socialist, explaining to
I friend the principles of socialism, re-
marked that all possessions should be
shared equally.
“If you had two horses," said the.
friend, “would you give me one?”
“Of course,” replied the Socialist.
“And ifvyou had two cows, would you
do the same?"
“Of course I should.”
“Well, supposing now,” said the
friend slowly, “you had two pigs,
would you give me one of them?”
.“Eh! tha’s gettin’ o-wer near home,”
said the other slyly; l“tha kn-aws I’ve
got two pigs.”—Answers.
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Brahmanistic American. *
Ann Arbor, Mich., boasts a queer
character in the person of Norman B.
Covert. Although an American by
birth and education, he is a devout
follower of Brahma. This'is the more
remarkable as he was born of Quaker
parents, reaching his present stage by
the stages of Methodism and Univer-
salitism.
Still a Boy.
“A dinner such as we have had to-
day,” said the elderly boarder, “makes
me feel like a young man.”
“‘Indeed,” was all Mrs. Hashcroft
deigned to reply.
"Indeed; when I think of that lamb
we had for dinner I "feel that if that
Was lamb I must be still a boy.”
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Reuse-us \Thy They Kill Fewer Persons
Than the Slower Trains.
“There seems to' be an impression,”
s lid a railway superintendent, speak-
ing of the fast service the railways
are now giving, “that the fast trains
are the most dangerous for people to
ride on, and that more persons are
tilled in crossing tracks, &c., than by
the trains which are slower. This is
a mistake.
“The Pennsylvania. Railroad Corr.—
Dany has given this matter special.
attention, and has statistics to show
that, in proportion to the fast and
slow trains run, more. accidents have
occurred to the slow trains and more
persons not in the employ of the com—
pany killed by the slower trains. Men
in charge of fast passenger or freight
trains are constantly on the watch for
danger. The engineer feels that there
is more at stake, and one will notice
that the blasts of his whistle are more
frequent and sharper; that the fireman
is more particular to ring the bell
when passing through a town or a city
or near a highway crossing. It .would
be diflicult to find people living on the
lines of the roads which run fast trains
that have not heardof the Chicago
limited on the Pennsylvania lines, the
fast express, No. 2, between St. Louis
and New York, over the Vandalia and
Pennsylvania lines; the Empire State
Express, the Knickerbocker on the
Big Four, and the hundreds of other
fast trains. Fast trains are run near—
er on time, and people know their time
and keep out of the way. The equip-
ment of the fast trains is kept at the
best standard, and everything con-
duces to make them safer to ride on
' and less liable to injure people at high-
way crossings and in passing through
towns and cities. The Pennsylvania
transportation department is fully set
isfied that the above statement is cor-
rec .”
The same remark will apply to the
freight service. In 1888 twelve miles
an hour was considered the highest
speed limit for a freight train, and J.
J. Turner, when superintendent of the
Indianapolis division of the Panhan-
dle, was the first to increase the speed
of freight trains in this section, sched~
uling a train at sixteen miles an hour
between Indianapolis and Columbus.
Competitors soon took similar action
and increased the speed of fast freights
to eighteen miles an hour, then to
twenty miles, which was the maximum
for through freight trains for several
years, but with the better track and
better locomotives some of the roads
are scheduling freight trains at twen-
ty-three to twenty—five miles an hour,
using the schedules of passenger trains
duringthe seventies and eighties.
A SHIP’S LOG. $3
The Instrument by Which the Rate of a
Ship’s Speed is Ascertalned.
Before the patent log came into ox.-
istence the old-fashioned chip log was
the only means of measuring a ship’s
rate of sailing. It has one advantage
over the former, inasmuch as a vessel’s
speed can be mm by it at any given
instant, while the patent log is mainly
useful for recording a considerable
distance run. The old fashicned log
consists of four pieces, namely, the
log-chip, the reel, the line and the sand
glass.
The log—chip is a flat piece of thin
board, loaded with lead on the circu-
lar side so that it will float upright on
the water, and to which the log-line is
fastened in the same way that a. bow-
kite is rigged to receive the string.
The line ._is 100 fathoms or more in
length, and is divided into certain
spaces called knots. The reel is made
to turn very freely, so that it will offer
no resistance when the log-chip is
thrown overboard. The. sand-glass
contains just enough grains to pass
'from one bulb to another in half a
minute of time. This practice of meas-
uring a ship’s rate of sailing is quite
simple. The idea is that the length
between each knot is the same part of
a mile as half a minute is of an hour.
Therefore, the knots are placed 51 feet
apart. What is caled heaving the log
is thus performed: One man holds the
reel, the other the half-minute glass;
the officer throws the log-chip over the
stern and waits a moment unstil enough
line has run out to carry the chip out
of the eddy of the ship’s wake, then
calls, “Turn.” The man holding the
glass reverses it and watches until the
sand has run through, when he cries,
“Stop!" The officer immediately stops
the line and notes the number of knots
run off, which number represents the
rate of speed per hour.
~VIVID RECOLLECTIONS.
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think wat fine work nature does on
makin’ wheat? .
Ru.ggles—-—Yes, and~ wot a bad job
some women makes tnrnin’ it inter pies
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MEVM'CRYJNVHKGED pacer;
Instances of Reniewedfl'fiébélfficfinvs{€591
a. Lapse of Years. ‘ “
About seventy-five years. ago, upon
a rainy day, a small boy, who- had
reached the mature age of six, was sit-
ting with his mamma and bemoaning
absence ‘of entertainment. Mamma
wore on her finger a beautiful ring that
was a family heirloom, and as she
sewed patiently the jewel glittered on
her white hand. The small boy re-
garded ‘the bright bauble for some
time in silence, and then sweetly re-
quested mamma to take it off and let
him play with it. It was a weak
thing to do, perhaps, but she complied. ,
I dare say there are'mothers at the
present day who can sympathize with
her, for human nature is the same,
though fashions change, and when the
“dear child” looked up in her face
pleadingly he looked with papa’s eyes,
and papa was dead. So he got the
ring and lost it, as might have been
expected. He always insisted that he
had “put it away to keep,” but he
could never remember where.
The years went on. The gentle
young mother went out into the great
unknown to find the light of‘ her life
that shone in “papa’s eyes,” and the
century and the boy, having been
young together, grew old in company,
too. Finally age began to tell on
them; the century got troubled with
a complaint designated “fin de seicle,
and the boy lost his memory for the
things of to-day, but became abnor-
mally reminiscent in regard to the
past. His thoughts often turned back
to the young mother, long dead, and
in the decline of life he had as clear
a mental picture of her as his boyish
eyes had ever seen. One evening, hav-
ing pushed his spectacles on top‘ of his
head and hunted everywhere for them
vainly, he sat musing before the fire,
when suddenly a flood of light illumi-
nated that dark corner of his memory
where hung the picture of that small
edition of himself losing or “putting
away” the ring. He sprang to his
feet with an excited cry: “The ring!
The ring! I slipped it down the crack
in the window casing. The one that
loo-ks out on the orchard!”
Upon investigation the ring was
brought from its long hiding place,
which was the exact spot the old man
had described—Buffalo Express.
NEW CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.
Horse Blood Mixed lVltli Alcohol Used by
a ’Frisco Doctor.
Dr. Fred W. D’Evelyn, head of .St.
Luke’s hospital, San Francisco, has re-
cently made public the result of fif-
teen years’ experiments, by which he
claims to have found a certain cure by
inoculation of horse blood for drunk-
enness, as well as for transmission of
hereditary taint of alcoholism. D’Eve-
lyn began his investigationswhile a i
surgeon in the British army in Zulu-
land, and he selected the :horse as a
clean animal with plenty of blood.
His cure is on the same line as Jen-
ner’s vaccination remedy, and he 3254‘
serts it will not only kill the craving
for drink, but it will relieve the chil-
dren of a drunkard from hereditary
taint, which he calls constitutional or
.coholism. The substance which he ob-
tains by injecting alcohol into the
blood of a horse he cals equisine, and
it is this he-introduces into the hu-
man system. The doctor thoroughly
introduces alcohol into a horse and
then draws off the blood into a steril-
ized vessel, where it is mixed with‘
chloral to influence the clot.
After settling twenty-four hours, it
is subjected to a freezing process, then
shaken for half an hour and decanted.
The result is a slightly sticky, pale,
straw colored fluid which he calls equi-
sine. What vaccine has beenlto small-
pox, equisine will be to hereditary or
acquired alcoholism, he says.
Equisine is prepared in small plaques
made by saturating bibulous paper
with fluid and then baking it in a pot
air chamber. The skin of the arm or
leg of a patient is scarlfled and the
plaque applied, moistened with-boiled
water. Twelve hours later the plaque
is again moistened and applied, and is
worn for five days. In adult cases of
alcoholism, the plaque is applied once
a week for eight or nine weeks. The
doctor claims to have been successful
in all cases where sedatives or nar-
cotics were not used—St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Good Little Boy.
A little boywho had been blowing
bubbles all the morning tired of play,
and suddenly growing serious, said:
“Read me that story about heaven;
it’s so gloriouth.” .
“I will,” said the mether, “but first
tell me, did you take the soap out of
the water?” .-
“Oh, yeth, I’m pretty thure I did.”
The mother read the description" of
the beautiful city, the streets of gold,
the gates of pearl. He listened with
delight, but when she came to the
words, “No one can enter there who
loveth or maketh a lie,” bounding up,
he said, “I guess I’ll go and thee about
that thoap.”
A Novel Throne Room
The famous German traveler, Otto
Ehlers, tells about a singular Chinese
potentatc whom he visited in Laos
States, while on his way from Siam to
Tonquin. The prince leaves the cares
of affairs chiefly to his wife. He has
had his throne placed in the palace
kitchen, so that he can receive visitors
~ and watch the preparation of his meals
. at the same time. The subjects seem
to be content with his manner of ad-
ministration, and admire the Demo-
cratic spirit manifested in his choice
of a throne room.——-Ohio State Journal.
As to the best ,way‘ to go to the
Klondike, accounts differ, but a good
many who have been there say the
best way is to go slow: -Chicago News. ._
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October 3, 1897.
Trains leave South Norwalk as follows:
FOR_ NEW YORK ——- Accommodation
trains at 9.36 a. m., 1.11, 3.04, 4.07, 5.33,
6.41, 8.11, 10.20 . 111. Express trains
at 4.55, 5.45, 6.15, (local), 6.55, (local),
7.15,, (local), 7.56, (local), 8. 17, 9.03 (local)
9.58, 10.35, 11.37, (local) a. m. 12.47‘
2.25, 5.05 5.55, 7.35 p. m. For Washing
ton via Harlem River 12.53 a. m. (daily)
SUNDAYS—Accommodation 9.15 a. m.
5.43, (local), 7.23, (local) 9.28 p. 111. EX
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Accommodati-on trains at 6.32, 7.42,
8.46 and 11.42 a. m., 1.37, 2.42, (to B’p’t),
4.20, 5.27, 6.27, 7.28 (to B’p’t), 8.41, 9.41
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1.20, 9.11, 10.12, 11.08 a. m. 12.02, 3.05,
5.04 (Naugatuck Express)”: .10 p. m.
SUNDAYS—Accommodation. 7.42, 9.12
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